The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the simple and the complex

Only one held work, Krakauer et al. (2020) on the information theory of individuality, clearly draws on this book, which it cites as Gell-Mann 1995. They use it to support a point about biology. No physical or chemical theory predicts biology, yet breaking a biological system into its constituents leaves no physics or chemistry unaccounted for. They treat this as motivating emergence versus reductionism. The citation is brief and supports a framing claim, with no extended discussion of the book. The Watson et al. passage does not mention it.

There is no physical or chemical theory from which we can predict biology, and yet if we break down any biological system into its elementary constituents, there is no chemistry or physics remaining unaccounted for

Krakauer D, Bertschinger N, Olbrich E, Flack JC…, 2020 · The information theory of individuality · open at passage 1